Chile - Jacobo Timerman

Jacobo Timerman awakened the conscience of the world to the regime of torture and tyranny in Argentina with his book Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number. He himself was imprisoned by the Argentine military authorities. Now, he turns his uniquely perceptive spotlight on another troubled nation - Chile. Once a proudly democratic country, Chile has become destitute: the people brutalized by fourteen years of General Augustine Pinochet's dictatorship, the economy caught in a spiralling depression that portends eventual disaster. In close-up human detail, Jacobo Timerman describes the opposition that has grown since the overthrow of Salvador Allende in 1973. However, his interviews and conversations in that country have convinced him that there is a way out: but only through subtle and unprecedented military and political cooperation - methods that may require sacrifice and compromise too difficult for the people to accept. Urgent and intensely serious, Chile exposes the full tragedy of an anguished nation and a regime that the majority of Chileans regard as doomed. 'Sensitive, thorough . . . punctuated with testimony from victims of the Pinochet government' Chicago Tribune.